Events of 2020 moved medical students to political activism
Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master s or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree.
But their decisions to become doctors seemed to carry even more weight when set against the backdrop of the events of 2020. People were needlessly dying while our leaders were failing, said Sakinah, a first-year student at Harvard Medical School. We also saw the crushing inequities the virus laid bare. That was the context in which we were beginning our journey into medicine. Covid has killed more than 550,000 Americans and disproportionately affected people of color.
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